Firstly, don't dog on college bars. Where else can you go to watch an ass contest on a Thursday night? (If you're in Springfield MO I can tell you where.) Secondly, I haven't been to a bar period since the nearest one to me closed down two years ago. Scratch that, I've been to one bar since then at a bachelorette party and I walked across the street to pay $8 for a pack of cigarettes I ended up throwing away because I haven't smoked in 6+ years. Thirdly, I need to get out more.
Man, there was a time I'd heard Hey Ya! enough times to swear of Outkast forever. Fuck they put out some good albums.
I almost forgot about the best hotel related song of the early 2000's. Holidae In is okay. But Hotel by Cassidy is the best. If I recall correctly, and I probably don't because this was 14 years ago or so, I bought this Cassidy CD and Kanye's College Dropout on the aforementioned FFA State Convention. No one knew who the hell Kanye was, and at that point in time he was just an awesome rapper/producer and not the egomaniac he is today. I only knew who he was because he was a guest on some MTV show. I remember he was wearing some stupid little backpack and he was talking about Through the Wire, which is what caught my attention.
I remember watching this video and hearing the stories about his behavior during production and thinking he was too crazy to last. That dude is insane.
I'm going to head to bed, but not before I share this. This song reminds me of selling yearbook ads: We sold the most but didn't get recognition because of the man or something. This song reminds me of hanging out in the school parking lot after football games:
Sorry you already posted the Remix to Ignition sooooooo......... If we're talking turn of the millenium TRL:
And I would be remiss not to mention Eminem. Once at a family gathering my dad took my discman (I legit had to google what a CD Walkman was called) and listened to The Eminem Show. He was somewhat impressed until Drips came on. Oops. I tried to buy The Marshall Mathers LP at Walmart with my mom, back when Walmart sold explicit music. The cashier was oh so nice to tell my mom that I shouldn't listen to it. So when The Eminem Show was released I had my cousin buy it at a music store for me. Then I got in trouble for sneaking away at a church youth group lock in for listening to it, they didn't know what I was listening to just that I had pretended to sleep in a corner so I could listen to it. If I were in high school now I'd just download the shit and get on with my life. I did have Limewire/Kazaa at some point in my high school career and I have other stories about that but I really am going to bed now.
Limewire and kazaa ruined a few computers for me I think. I had the coolest winamp playlists in the neighborhood. I knew because we compared notes on AIM and an IRC room I setup for that purpose.
Spoiler: I'm still not in bed I gave a computer or two aids from those sites myself. The story I was referring to earlier is regarding a playlist one of my best guy friends compiled. I think he called it his dirty CD or something equally lame. Anyway, it had a bunch of songs about sex on it, most of them rap. The highlight was Put It in Your Mouth by Akinyele: My mom went to browsing around on the computer one evening and she was not impressed. I immediately had to delete all such songs from the computer. Thankfully she didn't realize that I could delete them from the media player while still keeping them on the computer. I sort of miss the days when MSN Messenger was the only form of social media.
I'm in Toytoy territory. I started on the Tmmb right after my dad died and my daughter was born. I was in my 30s then. Now I'm taking my daughter to her first Panic! at the Disco concert tomorrow and closing out my night with some vodka and trailer park boys and what were we talking about again fuck I need to go to bed
This afternoon it was almost 15 degrees and sunny. green grass and budding trees everywhere. It's now -4 and an inch of snow everywhere. Fun times.
Why would anyone bother pirating anything these days except maybe software? Music is so cheap, especially with Apple Music and Spotify.
I was all about Napster. Where it took 5 hours to download a 4 minute song. Fun fact: I once started downloading a song on the family computer. Turns out it was actually porn. My dad is super...conservative. Like gets flustered if he hears the word "tampon" (you can imagine how much my mom and I push that button). My dad came across the porn and started yelling my name. It was hilarious in hindsight.
Lime wire was the be-all, end-all last word in downloading. It was fast, free, and the selection was pretty much bottomless. That right there was the Golden Age of piracy.
Yeah. I think I've told this before . . . When you're in an office at a small business, and there are two computers connected to the internet, mine and my uptight boss's uptight secretary? And, you're waiting to see if new Federal legislation was signed into law during the 90's? And, so you, and the boss, and the secretary are sitting at her computer? And, he tells her to check the White House website? And when she asks, what's the url, and he says, "I'm pretty sure it's WhiteHouse.com" and you don't say, "Uh, no it's WhiteHouse.gov" before pop-up boobs and dicks start appearing everywhere? Now, THAT is watching someone get flustered.
Rest assured that your dad is probably into some super kinky shit in the bedroom. I dont think I used Limewire directly. I used Morpheus then Kazaa Lite then Frostwire.
I was kind of lucky in that at the start of the Internet boom I was working in the music industry. I had a couple of contacts at EMI/Virgin Canada, and they were pretty well the only CD/DVD manufacturing plant in Canada. Every month a box would show up on my doorstep of all the latest movies and music CD's that they'd pressed. I never had to do the Limewire, etc, thing. Then I found what.cd and that was all I used ever since... until they died a few months ago. Since then I haven't really paid any attention to any new music.
Got tickets for the "Ultimate 90's" concert here in town this July. How's this for a blast-from-the-past lineup: Salt n Peppa Rob Base Naughty by Nature C + C Music Factory All 4 One Young MC Vanilla Ice Colour Me Badd ...seriously. COLOR ME BADD is still together? Have those fuckers been sexing us up for the past 27 years?